Beyond Contact

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About the Game Beyond Contact is an innovative science fiction survival crafting game that features a top-down art style inspired by pulp science-fiction comics, providing a distinct visual aesthetic. Offering players the option to engage in a narrative-driven Story Mode or an open-ended Conquest Mode, Beyond Contact's narrative objectives and moral dilemmas are reminiscent of contemporary science-fiction films.

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Publisher:
Koch Media
Engine:
Unity
Release date:
04 April 2023
Recent Steam reviews:
Not specified
All Steam reviews:
Mostly Positive (983)

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About the Game

Beyond Contact is an innovative science fiction survival crafting game that features a top-down art style inspired by pulp science-fiction comics, providing a distinct visual aesthetic.

Offering players the option to engage in a narrative-driven Story Mode or an open-ended Conquest Mode, Beyond Contact's narrative objectives and moral dilemmas are reminiscent of contemporary science-fiction films.

Beyond Contact's gameplay includes a robust system of research and crafting, allowing players to create a wide variety of tools, weapons, gadgets, and structures to aid in their survival. The habitat building, farming, and game mechanics are fun and satisfying to use. The game's open world features a diverse array of fauna and flora. For players who prefer a more casual pace, the game offers a range of game customization settings.

Your Adventure Starts Now!

In the year 2766, Quinn Hicks an elite member of Space Corps, the expeditionary arm of the UWC, is called in to respond to a growing crisis at the edge of known space. The planet of Ketern is breaking apart, a yet unknown energy source emanating from the planet's interior is threatening the civilization that calls Ketern home...

Conquest Mode

Join the fight for control of the planet Ketern in Beyond Contact's new Conquest Mode. This free-form survival experience offers endless gameplay, huge base-building opportunities, and epic battles against the formidable Corrupted hordes.

Story Mode

Polished through collaboration with the dedicated community, the Story Mode is ready to immerse players in an epic journey of exploration and discovery where you fight to save an entire civilization and planet from annihilation.

Coop

Work cooperatively with other players to succeed. Each player can use a character with unique abilities, skills, and tools. Revive fallen teammates with new multiplayer only features. Work together to complete shared research and objectives.

Dynamic 3D Engine

Can you survive the dynamically diverse, robustly detailed, and unquestionably deadly world of Ketern?

Science Fiction Setting

Utilize your Space Corps-issued equipment, weapons, and AtmoSuits to explore the diverse alien environments, discover extraordinary creatures and unusual plants, and eventually come face to face with the ancient civilization of Ketern.

Now featuring a diverse cast of unique playable characters, each with their own skills, abilities, and equipment. Quinn is a versatile generalist, Kangah a fierce warrior, and Professor Zaine an expert builder. A 4th character is being developed and will be added after release.

Robust Research and Crafting

Scan, collect, mine, and scavenge the planet's exotic materials while utilizing the deep and rewarding research and crafting system to survive and thrive the dying planet and its often aggressive inhabitants.

With the new farming system and structure create genetically modified plants, build farms inside protective habitats, optimize yields to secure your survival in an unforgiving world.

Intuitive Base Building and Power Grid System


Build, expand, and defend your base of operations, while pushing the unique power grid and oxygen/heat systems to their limits.

With the new Habitat system, you can build the ultimate survival sanctuary and take your base-building creativity to the next level.

Narrative Driven Quests and Factional Alien NPCs

Collaborate with alien civilizations, discover previously unknown technology, and uncover the truth of the planet's demise along your journey to help the locals.

Devolving World


Ripped apart by an onslaught of dark rifts, Ketern's once-thriving biomes are being overtaken by dangerous hazards and chaotic weather fallout. Do you have what it takes to survive?

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *:
Windows (7SP1/8/8.1/10)
Processor:
Intel Core i5 (Sandy/Ivy Bridge) or AMD equivalent
Memory:
8 GB RAM
Graphics:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 or AMD equivalent
DirectX:
Version 11
Storage:
10 GB available space
Sound Card:
Onboard Sound

recommended*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS:
Windows (10)
Processor:
Intel Core i5 (Sandy/Ivy Bridge) or AMD equivalent
Memory:
16 GB RAM
Graphics:
NVIDIA Geforce 1060 or AMD equivalent
DirectX:
Version 11
Storage:
10 GB available space
Sound Card:
Onboard Sound

User reviews

KittenPaws
Not recommended | 12 Nov 2025
4.0h played

TL;DR: Buggy abandonware. Okay if you get it for 5 or less, but otherwise you can find better survival games out there. The good: - There is a story, even if it's somewhat predictable. - Trading and NPC Quests. You are

Helpful: 32
PhysicsPolice
Not recommended | 22 Dec 2025
22.8h played

This feels like a reskin of Crashlands. The controls are very wonky and carpal-tunnel inducing. The plot is something to hold your nose and bear. Getting 100% achievements requires multiple playthroughs, which is a pet

Helpful: 4
Scarmandros
Recommended | 25 Jan 2026
172h played

What a fantastic, unexpected gem of a game! I don't know how it's been out this long without catching my eye, but I'm very glad it finally did. 110% recommended. Beyond Contact is a great mix of combat, exploration,

Helpful: 5
dami
Recommended | 15 Nov 2025
102h played

Another game that made me play until get 100% achievements. I was entertained from the beginning until the end of the story and I quickly became familiar with the inventory, combat and base system. I started playing the

Helpful: 5
RoaD_KiLL
Not recommended | 03 Apr 2026
2.4h played

Really don't buy this one, I'm currently refunding. It look alright for the first minutes but it feels soulless and void of any intellectual actual gameplay. You are just going to be running around to the same stuff for

Helpful: 5
RaistlinLives
Recommended | 21 Jan 2026
26.0h played

I REALLY enjoyed this game! Had a ton of fun! Saved the planet! What a great sale at 80% off too! Huge bargain of an amazing game for only a few dollars. This is exactly how a game should be made. It was balanced,

Helpful: 3